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• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Struggle, Military

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cemetery, Military, Texas

• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Ability, Death, History

  Tags in Institutions, Invaluable, War, Military

• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Counterinsurgency, Military

• Well, the reports are correct that we’re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

  John Abizaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Military

• I think you also understand that one of the key things that’s got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

  John Abizaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Key, Military

• The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

  Charles Babbage

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Velocity, Importance, Military

• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complex, Foundations, Sought, Military

• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Age, Wedding

  Tags in Eyes, War, Marriage, Military

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Objectives, National, Powerful, Achieve, Continue, Military

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Hundred, Military

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lack, Iraq, Defensive, Operations, Military

• The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.

  William Westmoreland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politicians, War, Military

• The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

  Charles Dickens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Military

• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Totally, Spirit, Military

• Love is a kind of military service.

  Topics in Latin Proverbs, Love, Service

  Tags in Military, Kind

• I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Young, Friends, Paying, People, Think, Attention, Military

• Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

  Simon Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Military

• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Military

• I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

  Joseph Heller

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Choice, Military